When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
ALAIN PROSTWhen you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can’t see that from the outside.
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So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
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I have had some problems because the French don’t like people to have success, they don’t like the number one.
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People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.
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I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn’t understand why there have been so many good South American drivers, especially Brazilians.
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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can’t see that from the outside.
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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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So I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.
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I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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It’s always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone.
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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. But that’s motor racing.
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When I look fast, I’m not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.
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I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success.
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So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
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